Connect Hacker News to your AI agent

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Hacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator by Y Combinator, featuring user-submitted stories and discussions on startups, programming, and emerging trends

We set up the connection using your own Hacker News account, with keys you control, and keep it running. Your agent picks it up and starts doing the work.

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Actions

What your agent can do in Hacker News

Each one is a real action the agent can take on its own, the same things a person clicking around Hacker News could do. Read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against your policy.

  • Get Ask HN Story IDs Get up to 200 latest Ask HN story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs for Ask HN posts in ranked order.
  • Get Best HackerNews Stories Get up to 500 best story IDs from HackerNews ranked by score. Returns story IDs only. Use the returned IDs with get_item_with_id action to fetch full story details.
  • Get Hacker News Item Tool to get a Hacker News item by its unique ID from the Firebase API. Use when you need to retrieve details about a specific story, comment, job, poll, or pollopt.
  • Get Hackernews Item Get a specific item from Hacker News using its ID. Limits response size to prevent context overflow.
  • Get Job Story IDs Get up to 200 latest job story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs for job postings that can be used to fetch full job details.
  • Get Latest Hackernews Posts Get the latest posts from Hacker News based on optional filters. Results can be limited using the size parameter.
  • Get Max Item ID Tool to get the current largest item ID from Hacker News. Use when you need to discover the most recent items or iterate through all items in the system by walking backward from this ID.
  • Get New Hacker News Stories Get up to 500 newest story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs sorted by recency (most recent first). Use these IDs with the Get Item action to retrieve full story details.
  • Get Show HN Stories Tool to retrieve up to 200 latest Show HN story IDs from Hacker News. Use when you need to find recent Show HN posts where people share their projects, products, or creations.
  • Get Top HackerNews Stories Get up to 500 top story IDs from HackerNews including jobs. Returns story IDs sorted by front page position. Use the returned IDs with get_item_with_id action to fetch full story details.
  • Get Hacker News Updates Get recently changed items and user profiles from Hacker News. Use this to monitor recent activity or updates on the platform.
  • Get Hacker News User Retrieve a Hacker News user's public profile by their username. Returns the user's username, karma score, and optional bio/about text. Use this to look up information about HN community members.
  • Get HackerNews User by Username Tool to get a user profile by their case-sensitive username from the HackerNews Firebase API. Use when you need detailed user information including creation date, karma, bio, and submission history. Only users with publ…
  • Search Hackernews Posts Search Hacker News posts using full-text search powered by Algolia. Use this action to find stories, comments, and discussions on Hacker News matching specific keywords. Supports filtering by post type (story, comment,…
Setup

How we connect it

  1. 1

    Connect your account

    We connect Hacker News using your own account, with credentials you control. You can cut access at any time.

  2. 2

    Set the guardrails

    Read-only by default. You choose which write actions the agent may take, and anything outside that policy gets confirmed with you first.

  3. 3

    We keep it running

    Health checks on every connection, updates handled for you, and we watch the first week of activity to make sure the work lands.

FAQ

Hacker News questions, answered.

With a key you create and control. You paste it in once, it is stored in a secrets store on your server, permissions are scoped to the minimum the agent needs, and you can revoke it at any time.
The actions Hacker News's API allows, the same things a person clicking around the app could do. Connections start read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against the policy you set before the agent takes them.
Connections are priced per tool on top of the base plan. Some are included, some are premium. See pricing for how connection charges work.
Standard tools are ready inside 7 business days of the setup call. We test the connection end to end, walk you through how the agent uses it, and watch the first week of activity.

Ready to put Hacker News to work?

Tell us what your team runs on. We set up the connection, secure it, and your agent takes it from there.

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